Botox Nightmare - Desperate for a Solution! Please Help? (photo)

My eyebrows 1 year after my original Botox treatment. The muscles are extremely Enlarged and Puff up very unnaturally. Botched botox by derm on 10-16-2012, forehead, crows feet. Eyes swelled, Potosis developed, Eyebrows Dropped. Derm said to come back, admined More botox under my eyebrows which made my eyes look more open. 9 months later, eyebrow muscles extremely enlarged when smiling. Derm tried to fix 2 months ago. Said the muscles had atrophied. How can I get my eyes to return to normal?

Not due to Botox

October 2nd, 2013

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The fullness in both brows are almost certainly due to some kind of filler injection, not Botox. Try to find out what it is. Hopefully it can be dissolved with hyaluronidase. Alternatively, a surgical exploration with debulking can be done.

Botox Pictures

Unlikely cause and effect

October 2nd, 2013

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It is highly unlikely that Botox is responsible for the problem that you describe and picture. While I can not imagine that any "filler" was used without your knowledge for both ethical and cost reasons, stranger things have happened. As Dr. Durboraw suggested, I would return to your dermatologist and ask their opinion or their referral to a plastic surgeon or oculoplastics surgeon.

Botox nightmare

October 1st, 2013

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All I can say based on the picture that you have submitted is that this does not appear to me to be the result of a neurotoxin. The unusual swelling above your eyebrow to me looks more like a dermal filler problem. I would return to your doctor and find out if there was something else injected. Botox, and all neurotoxins for that matter, are temporary in duration with completely reversible effects over time. In 18 years of administering neurotoxins I have never encountered the problem with which you are dealing.

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